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DIANA ROUSSI Email: dianarous@yahoo.com tel : 0030 6986209496 linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-roussi-35a0ba181/?originalSubdomain=gr

Architect and urbanist from Athens, Greece. Passionate about human centered design and data driven approaches. Always curious to discover and test new things, with respect to nature and what’s already given. Fast learner, detail oriented and a great team player.

LANGUAGES

EDUCATION 2020//2021

master in City & Technology IAAC, UPC _grade distinction

Dec. 2013 // Oct. 2019

master in Architecture [MArch] National Technical University of Athens // Architectural Engineering _grade 8.5/ 10

2018

2006 // 2013

erasmus exchange student ISCTE University Lisbon Master (MSc) in Architecture Arsakeia- Tositseio highschool _grade distinction

WORKSHOPS

English, Cambridge English: Proficiency [CPE]

Urban Ecology // The New Old: Envisioning the future of our past _ For The Why Factory (T?F) run by Winy Mass MVRDV co-founder and principal architect and Delft University of Technology _Faculty: Winy Maas, Javier Arpa, Adrien Ravon,

Spanish, basic communication [level B1]

Urban Intelligence // Data-driven Spatial Planning _By Foster + Partners: Andy Bow, Bruno Moser, Laura Narvaez Zertuche

Portuguese basic communication

Wallacei Workshop // Simulating New Hong Kong _ Faculty: Milad Showkatbakhsh co-founder of ‘Wallacei’, an evolutionary and analytic engine with embedded machine learning algorithms

Greek, mother tonguε

2020 // 2021

Urban AI // Photosynthetic Organism _Faculty: Dr. Sandra Manninger & Dr. Matias del Campo Platform Urbanism // High touch sensors _Faculty: Nicolay Boyadjiev, Co Director at Strelka Institute

Blockchain 4 Cities // Favelas, Blockchain for invisible cities _Faculty: Lluïsa Marsal, Technological Innovation Lead 2017

2015 // 2016

Cross sea / Urban transitions, NTUA / MSGSU University _Simultaneous workshops with MSGSU University, Istanbul, Turkey _Comparative Urban Studies on Settlements in Transition Across Both sites of the Aegean Sea: Mikrolimano/ Tarabya Making Cities, MIT School of Architecture _Research project, run by the MIT Architecture School headed by Professor Rafi Segal. _Analysis of the development of major historical cities with basic tool their cartographic material

WORK EXPERIENCE architect // urban designer Dec. 2021 // present

TPA - Thymio Papayannis & Associates Inc. _Concept and architectural design in residential and public buildings // up to detailed design and technical drawings _Partitipation in large architecture competitions

SOFTWARE 2D/ 3D Drawings Autocad Rhino

Graphics architect Sep. 2021 //Dec. 2021 UI / UX design 2021 architect 2020

logo design 2019,2017 architecture intern // Nov. 2015

other work experience 2015 // 2019

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Premiere, After Effects

Ikostand Αrchitectural & Construction Firm _On-site supervision and management of the construction

BIM Archicad Revit

Pickle Ride APP _Concept and graphic design Dotflow Architectural Firm _Renovation projects, mainly in the Greeks Islands, at different stages of design _Moodboards, researches, architectural and technical drawings

3D Modeling / Rendering Lumion Vray for Rhino ZBrush

Parametric Design

Grasshopper

Funded research network RESET & 10th European Conference on Marine Natural Products Course 5A, NTUA _Systematic Analysis of Vernacular Buildings and Settlements _Architectural Analysis of Traditional village in Kissamos, Chania Project Management at Cretal HerbalChem _ Progress reports, Deliverables, Milestones

PUBLICATIONS 2021

Responsive Cities symposium presenting: 01. Healing Flows

2021

CIVITAS Forum Conference // “Mobility Powered by the Youth” presenting 2 projects: 01. Healing Flows 02. Hyperblock: The future of mobiltiy

GIS

QGIS

Programming Python Arduino programming

Other Wallacei optimisation tool Circuiscape

MEMBERSHIPS Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece

contents 01 //

HEALING FLOWS TOWARDS HEALTHY MOBILITY FLOWS

02 //

FOOD FOR FUTURE

03 //

A BREATHING ORGANISM // CARBON CAPTURE IN BARCELONA

04 //

MULTIFUNCTIONAL HUB

05 //

HOUSING COMPLEX IN ELEONAS, ATHENS

06 //

SUSTAINABLE HOUSE IN FILOPAPPOU HILL

07//

PLAYFUL NARRATIVES OF THE CIVIL WAR IN RAQQA, SYRIA

01 HEALING FLOWS TOWARDS HEALTHY MOBILITY FLOWS INTERNET OF BUILDIGNS / IaaC MaCT Y// 2020-2021 W// A. Aguirre Such, D. Zhu, H. Qatanany & T. Sarazin Faculty // Angelos Chronis, Iacopo Neri, Mahsa Nikoufar and Androniki Pappa In recent years, healthy mobility has been an increased focus of urban policies worldwide. However, street design has yet to be a fundamental tool in the challenge of creating healthier cities. Healing flow is a research project that tackles a more holistic understanding of healthy street design by providing an analytical design tool to urban planners and stakeholders through a combined evaluation of health risk and mobility flow. The project provides a global framework that can be applied to different scenarios and cities. The methodology of the project goes through an analytical process starting from establishment of environmental quality index, to an agent-based simulation, and finally health risk analysis; all of which generate targeted “health pills” that improve the streets network through targeted interventions. As part of the research project, the area of Poblenou in Barcelona was considered as an example to test this analysis tool and design methodology. Data on the site was collected and reflected as geospatial maps using tools such as GIS and Grasshopper. The resulting maps and graphs allow planners to very quickly gain a more holistic understanding of the health flow and dominant transport mode in the study area. The visualized maps can then be used to highlight the risk areas in the city that will need attention to allow policy makers to focus mobility objectives and select interventions that will best suit the requirements of the area, budget and sustainability goals.

Explore our analysis and evaluation in detail here. https://iob.iaac.net/app.html More at: http://www.iaacblog.com/programs/healing-flows/

METHODOLOGY

The project starts by analyzing two aspects of a healthy network: agent flows and network health. To start, the existing road network is segmented and then each of these segments is scored based on 3 agent preferences and 3 health indicators. The data for these layers are collected through municipality portals and other open data sources then aggregated and combined in the necessary process. The resulting scores,‘Agent flows’ and the ‘Health scores’ respectively, are combined and evaluated to identify risk areas (areas with highest agent flows and lowest health scores). The risk scores are based on benchmarking with international standards such as the ones established by WHO for maximum air and noise pollution and so on. Once the final map of combined scores is achieved, the tool proposes a set of 9 health pills that are designed to answer the resulting health of flows from the analysis. Each of these pills have a list of interventions that are specifically selected to raise the health score by taking into account the predominant agent flow.

FLOWS METHODOLOGY

INTERSECTIONS

Pedestrian Network Segments

crosswalks

safety

x1.05

ladder crosswalk countdown in signal crosswalk scramble no turn in red traffic calm features additional signs

traffic

x0.76

number of lanes two way traffic vehicle speed

width of sidewalk

street design

x1.10

land use

x0.18

SEGMENTS

obstructions driveway cuts trees public seating presence of a buffer

historic sites restaurant and retail

litter lighting construction sites abandoned buildings

perceived safety

x0.43

FLOWS Simulation through agent based algorithm

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INDEX

FOOTFALL POINTS

PEDESTRIAN

VEHICLE

BIKE

bad quality 0

good quality 10

start/end points of paths

Min

Flows Max

HEALTH INDEX METHODOLOGY

40 µg/m3

NO2 pollution PM 10 pollution PM 2.5 pollution Thermal confort

50 µg/m3 25 µg/m3 NO2

1-10 range

PHYSICAL

0-17 range

PEDESTRIAN NETWORK

Accidents

PM 10

PM 2.

MENTAL H

VEHICLE NETWORK

53 decibels

Noise Pollution Visibility

0-1 range 0-1 range

NDVI

BIKE NETWORK

Noise Pollution

Visibili

SOCIAL H

5 min. d.m.t

Proximity to P.T. General accesibility Proximity to P.O.I.

0-1 range 5 min d.m.t

Proximity to Public Transport

General Acce

merge

Accidents

HEALTH

Thermal confort

HEALTH

normalize

merge

ity

NDVI

MENTAL HEALTH INDEX

PHYSICAL HEALTH INDEX

normalize

essibility

Proximity to POI

Lowest Risk

merge

Highest risk

SOCIAL HEALTH INDEX

HEALTH

EVALUATION & INTERVENTIONS

Lines of action

Health scores

PILL A

Greenery for shadow Weather protection Permeable pavement Increase Sidewalk width Decrease parking spots Road cleaning Road elevation 10 km/h speed

Agent flow

Pill type

PILL B

Thermal Comfort +40% Air Quality +29% Accident reduction +20%

Tall greenery for shadow Weather protection Permeable pavement Increase bikelane width Decrease parking spots Road cleaning Bike buffer Bike marking

PILL C

Thermala Comfort +30% Air Quality +24% Accident reduction +25%

Tall greenery for shadow Weather protection Permeable pavement Increase Sidewalk width Decrease car lane number Decrease parking Road cleaning Road curve for 20km/h

Thermal Comfort +30% Air Quality +19%

Accident reduction +13%

PILL D

Greenery location Reduce parking Increase Sidewalk width Greenery densification Crossing painting Sidewalk ramps Street light improvement

PILL E

Noise quality +33% Improve greenery +60% Safety perception +25%

Greenery location Reduce parking Increase Bikelane Greenery densification Pedestrian crossing Bike buffer Street light improvement

PILL G

Reduce carlane+parking Increase Sidewalk width Increase Bikelane Bus stop Amenities in street Furniture for socializing Greenery for social areas

PILL F

Noise quality +33% Improve greenery +60% Safety perception +35%

Greenery location Reduce parking Increase Bikelane Greenery densification Pedestrian crossing Intersection reduction Street light improvement

PILL H

Accesibility +30% Public transport +25% Points of interest +35%

Reduce carlane+parking Bikelane highway Bike stops Bicing stop Greenery Water fountains Electric bike charge

Noise quality +33% Improve greenery +40% Safety perception +35%

PILL I

Accesibility +28% Public transport +15% Points of interest +35%

Reduce carlane+parking Public trans. fast lane Drop off Reduced mob. parking Bus stop Bus stop design Greenery near bus stop

Accesibility +40%

Public transport +25% Points of interest +15%

TOOL OUTPUT

current section

PARTICIPATION amenities street furniture greenery

Pill G

& DESIGNER INPUT reduce parking health risk

Increase sidewalk width Increase bike lane

flows

bus stop

DESIGN PROCESS As an example, we select a segment with low social health and dominated with pedestrian flows. The “Health Pill” is Pill G. Being aware of the potential to increase public amenities and street accessibility, designers and stakeholders could bring in the local context and have a more targeted discussion as well as awareness of the outcomes.

02 FOOD FOR FUTURE COMPUTATIONAL URBAN DESIGN, IAAC MACT Y// 2020-21 W// S. Coskun, L. Guimarães & A. Aguirre Such Facutly// Alex Mademochoritis, Eugenio Bettuchi & Iacopo Neri Food for Future aims to develop a generative model enabling adaptive reuse of both underground car parks and urban empty lots. Considering that underground car parks are becoming future cemeteries of cars and are not subject to any planning processes today, it is one of the main objectives of the project to re-add value to these areas. Together with surface car parks they are considerably large areas for agricultural food production. In addition to the re-use of future vacant lands, FFF anticipates providing transition between underground and surface with the help of proposed open holes. They are also expected to provide a consistency of street section and make underground visible. The project initially focuses on the surroundings of Sagrera Metro Station which is now a days is home to the largest rail and urban-planning regeneration in Spain. With the ongoing project for train station and its surrounding, the city will gain diversified housing options as well as new facilities and public services. It also offers many economic and retail activities, and the largest linear urban park in the city. Sagrera Train Station will be an intermodal transport hub, well-connected with the rest of the city and its surroundings.

Explore more at: http://www.iaacblog.com/programs/food-for-future/

METHODOLOGY

population growth need for space

increase demand local food

private car transport decrease

scarcity of space

surface parking lots

planned verticality in section

underground car parks space offer vacant lands

unused lots

brownfields section type

full sun fruits

shaded

vegetables

production

beans

residential

buildings

market

green areas

sagrera market

underground

need of sun

controled evirnoment

underground overground connection

CONCEPT | CHANGING THE CITY SECTION

SIMULATION In order to obtain the up ground and underground vertical section, there are two main parameters on which the created algorithm is based. The first one is the time based on the population growth estimation. The second one is the DVI or Distribution Variability Index that distributes the different typologies of farms. The percentages have been chosen as a design decision since they give more feasible results and eliminate the outlier extreme results from the program.

DESIGN

NEW RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

SURFACE FARMING

OVERGROUND CONNECTIONS

OVERGROUND

UNDERGROUND FARMING OPEN HOLE FARMING

UNDERGROUND CONNECTIONS

UNDERGROUND

INTERFACE years from now

population

externalities

food consumption

area needed for food production

areas for new farms

area for food per zone

provide food for whole city

n 5 zones

% of sun needed per food type

area of each zone age group per zone

% of plant type per age group overground parking

new farms

closer vacant spaces

empty lots

distance from residents further

new resitential buildings

brownfields

open holes underground farms

underground connections

Sagrera station

surface farms new residential buildings

PARAMETERS:

overground connections

y boolean toggle

slider

STEPS:

Inputs/ outputs Calculated

03 A BREATHING ORGANISM // CARBON CAPTURE IN BARCELONA INTERNET OF CITIES / IaaC MaCT Y// 2020-2021 W// K. Aragon, I. Esteban, & T. Sarazin Faculty // Eduardo Rico, Mathilde Marengo & Iacopo Neri “A Breathing Organism” is a project developed for increasing the Carbon Capture in the area of Barcelona. Soils is a fundamental means to achieve that and for that cause we propose to convert conventional to regenerative agricultural lands. In this study, we worked on urban and rural scales and introduced a network of U-Pick farms, at the periphery of the city, to connect all the elements, so that they could work all together, as an organism. This system besides increasing CO2 capture, contributes to general health and social benefits. In other words, by supporting the organic food market and connecting the farmers with the consumers, we could enhance a change in people’s mentality. Our system is evolving throughout time in a circular way.

Explore more at: http://www.iaacblog.com/programs/healing-flows/

STRATEGY From conventional to Organic Agriculture

Conventional agricultural practices, decertify the soils and consequently they are losing their capabilities of absorbing CO2, while their emissions increase. However, regenerative agricultural practices, can maximize the sequestration of the arable lands

A system of natural connections

COLLABORATION AND CO-MANAGEMENT TOOL TO ENGAGE THE FARMERS

Expanding system from Urban gardens to Upick farms to Rural Argiculture All parts are organically connected and the system evolves in terms of time, scale and impact in a continuous and circular flow.

Visualise animal's movement through the territory Circuitscape Simulation Our design is based on the natural behaviors of the system. Thus, we analyzed the natural connections and simulate animal's paths

WHY? MULTIPLE BENEFITS FOR THE CIRCULARITY OF THE SYSTEM

CIRCULARITY DIAGRAM

RURAL FARMS System evolution phase 01

System evolution phase 04

The rural farmers network, will actually be the one with the greatest impact in terms of CO2 capture. The growth of organic food markets together with the change in society opens a new positive scenario for farmers that push them to turn from conventional to regenerative agriculture. Besides benefiting from this new market, they are also taking advantages of new policies and the international CO2 market. Our strategy for turning from conventional to regenerative agriculture on a large scale is based on the natural behavior of the region. Therefore, we analyzed the animals’ natural paths running Circuitscape, with a resistance from the NDVI of the region.NDVI is an index that represents the density of vegetation. We computed it from combining various satellite images, provided by sentinel for each season of the year 2019-20, in the Barcelona region.

Capture CO2

Organic food production

U-PICK FARMS

U-Pick farms play a fundamental role for the system, as the main educational and connecting nodes to support the forthcoming change, from conventional to regenerative agriculture. Farmers, are sharing their knowledge about current and new practices in the field, while citizens step out from their role us only buyers and become farmers as well. The U-Pick Farms are places where people can go from the city or the nearby urban nodes to pick- up their products. Hence, these areas need to be easily accessible by public transport. For allocating these places, we performed an Isochrones analysis, with defines a 30 min walkable area from the train stops.

Connect farmers & citizens

Educate farmers

U-PICK FARMS// LOCATION

Using Grasshopper we analyzed the abandoned and the smallholders crops that are inside the Isochrones areas, in relation to their size and their accessibility. Thus, we were able to determine and propose the location of each U-pick farm in the periphery of Barcelona, and form this network.

DESIGN FRAMEWORK Step_01: Crop design by APP SuperCrops

Step_02: Spatial design

In order to start the design process the farmer opens the digital tool and firstly, she/ he searches and selects her plot. Once it is selected the tool recognizes the plot and starts to process the relevant information to generate the U-Pick crops.

FLOOR PLAN // CASE STUDY Based on these, the tool defines different axes that structure and subdivide the parcels of each crop. Then, the user defines the products and the production she/he wants and the program calculates the best spatial distribution. The main objectives here is to maximize the symbiosis between species and enrich of the soil. In addition, trees are placed along the natural connections axes to facilitate the movement of animals. We use artificial intelligence to optimize these parameters.

04 MULTIFUNCTIONAL HUB FOSTER & PARTNERS WORKSHOP Y// 2020-21 W// Kevin Aragon, Kshama Patil, Nadh Ha Naseer, Simone Grasso Faculty// Laura Narvaez Zertuche, Bruno Moser & Andy Bow Mustakivi, a residential sub-district of Lasnamae in Tallinn, was one of the dream cities during Soviet times. The district’s character of the Soviet planning still stands yet, the concepts and the hierarchical clustering of services and activities are becoming outdated and struggle to cope with the changing needs. The unrealized dreams and visions of the city make residents feel stigmatized for living in such a neighborhood. Our analysis led to identify issues in three scales. 01. People: The high rate of unemployment amongst all citizens often pushes them to take up work on low wages or foces them to commute long distances. The district lacks economic activities to engage and absorb talent. 02.Housing: Poor housing conditions remain unattended and residences often lack basic heating and sanitation facilities. The replication of the same architectural elements in all buildings, eliminates indivituality and discourages residents to appropriate their houses. 03.Public Spaces: Vacant and overscaled open spaces between the apartments lack character and purpose and are furtherly degraded, being ruptured by various mobility services.

Explore more at:http://www.iaacblog.com/programs/multifunctional-hub-tallin-estonia-mact01-iaac-fosterpartners/

PROPOSAL Starting from the challenges, our main goal is to include people in the design process, so that we can have a dynamic, adaptable and functional neighborhood. Retrofitiing is our main design concept . Interventions are built from renewable materials and reduce energy consumption as sun rooms or are used as community hubs. At the same time, we assign functions on these elements, in relation to people’s needs and on different scales. We firmly believe that this combination is going to generate a new, more human centered identity for Mustakivi.

Community Engagement

20-29 yrs 30-39 yrs 50-59 yrs

60-69 yrs 40-49 yrs

70+ yrs

0-19 years

Interventions

ACTIVITIES For the revitalization of our area, we introduce a set of first activities

NEW PATHS At a large scale, we start by generating the shortest path from the multifunctional bridge at the center of the site, to the courtyards of the building blocks. The idea is to have a shared vehicle path inside the site that includes a new system of shared vehicles and spaces for pedestrians.

SUN ROOMS At the building scale, we performed a solar analysis, and based on the parts of the facades that receive the highest sunlight we introduce sunrooms that can be used as conservatories. greenhouses or community gardens.

CONCEPT

CIRCULARITY PLAN

The strategic plan for activating a circular system crosses the whole site on different scales. This is particularly visible when exploring the section and the distribution of the different functions. The first interventions will be of energetic and functional type, with the aim to activate a circular system in which natural resources such as rainwater and solar energy will acquire a new value.

05 HOUSING COMPLEX IN ELEONAS, ATHENS ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN DESIGN Y/ /2017-2018 W//E. Sofoulaki & L. Slibi Faculty// M. Papavasileiou The project is located in the area of Eleonas in the center of Athens. Using large scale interventions we aimed to improve the quality of life and the urban environment. We designed a housing complex for young people, proposing an alternative lifestyle in Athens at the time of the crisis. We proposed implementing a co-living place, aiming to change the consciousness of young people, through collective practices and thus, to mitigate the problems they would face if they lived on their own. The houses are designed with the basic idea of shifting the boundaries between the private and public spaces. Common spaces play a very im¬portant role, as they are used as reference points for the inhabitants. The residents can either main¬tain a full time collective, so that the complex ex¬ists as a self-sustaining production unit for some basic products, or contribute to it regularly along¬side with their work or studies at the nearby uni¬versities.

1 // morphology of the rooms

form // interplay 2 // relation with the surroundings

enclosed system

movement

3 // relation of common space with the units

SITE SCALE

In most outdoor areas we placed a waterproof concrete that absorbs rainwater and facilitates its natural run-off to the ground, allowing smooth groundwater supply and faster rainwater management. Around the houses there are crops, warehouses, a dryer and a product shop. These elements play a particularly important role as they ensure the self-sufficiency of the residents and support the ideas of co-operation and self-management.

BUILDING SCALE

second floor plan

forth floor plan

third floor plan

roof plan

SE VIEW

SW VIEW

NE VIEW

NW VIEW

Each building consists of two independent houses which are placed on the vertical axis, accommodate 8-12 people. The buildings are made of concrete with some metallic elements.

06 SUSTAINABLE HOUSE IN FILOPAPPOU HILL BIOCLIMATIC AND SUSTAINABLE DESIGN Y// 2014/2015-2016 W// D. Hartonas & L. Slimpi Faculty// Leonidas Koutsoubos & Ilias Zaxaropoulos The house is designed to accommodate a four-member nuclear family with two children. There is a work area on the ground floor, a jewelry workspace and art shop. The concept of whole building consists on semi-floors with a height difference of 1.5 m and a single stairway- the nuclear of the house- at a central point connecting all the separate spaces. The particularities of the terrain, and the rather big height difference from one side to the other, had a key role in the proposed design. At the same time a visual communication between the all spaces is achieved and the space is studied as a whole rather than ruptured rooms and floors.

TECHNICAL DRAWINGS

bioclimatic charts

winter

summer

heating and cooling systems

In order for the house to be Bioclimatic and Sustainable, some adjustions were made. The staircase is surrounded by transparent thermal insulation is used, a material that we met in the Thomas Herzog building in Bavaria (1994).

section of blinds system

section of shading system

Part of the face that allows the sun's rays to pass through the interior

Swapping surfaces limits the entrance of the rays in the summer months

Section covered with transparent thermal insulation (Karilux). Sunlight diffuses inside the house

plan of KAPILUX system

07 PLAYFUL NARRATIVES OF THE CIVIL WAR IN RAQQA, SYRIA THESIS PROJECT Y//2018-2019 W// M.Kofaki & L. Slibi Facutly// Stavros Stavrides In November 2019, the situation in Syria, was rather stable and the civil war seemed to be over. Considering that, the aim of the project was to create a memorial of the, using playful arrangements, by designing a public park in the center of Raqqa in Syria. In our intervention we looked for new forms that express collective memory. We tried to distance ourselves from the traditional monumental spaces and thus, we designed a park where the game exists in the memories and the memories in the game. The pieces of the destroyed city are reused as the basic architectural vocabulary.

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ANALYSIS

Many residents were returning to Raqqa although life conditions were unfavorable. The image of disaster prevailed with over 80% of the buildings being demolished. The city was not yet fully cleared out of mines making childrens play even more dangerous.

The intention to create a memorial not as an attraction but as an active space to be inhabited prompted us to combine memory with games, considering that children play a dominant role in the appropriation of the public space. We consider gaming not just a means of fun, but as a way to interact, experience and discover the characteristics of a space.

CONCEPT

In line with the need for reconstructing Raqqa’s public spaces, we decided to intervene by shaping a park. We managed to redefine the space and the memory by using playful compositions -for both children and adults. The architectural forms refer to the pictures of the war and have symbolic meanings. In conjunction with different spatial variables they create an environment that is emotional but without literal correlations. The place narrates the destruction of the city and the lives of its inhabitants. This is based on a chronological account of the key events that took place in Raqqa during the civil war. The events, and their spatial representations create fragmentary architectural images. These fragmentary ideas are combined creating “zones” around the center of the site, where the buildings representing the climax of the narrative are located.

Key Events

Spatial Trasnlations

Playful Spatial Arrangements

1.Beginning of the war entrance between walls

hide and seek framing

paths with walls on each side

hide and seek framing

crushed straight paths //

adventure games hopscotch balance climbing

2. Internal migration

3.a. occupation from the IS b. citizen’s exodus

4. Raqqa: the capital of the IS

convoluted paths // stops

surface with fragments // repeated element

hide and seek chase

continuous zone // ditch

abseiling climbing hide

altitude variations

terrain games ascent descent

climbing constructions

vertigo games ascent climbing

5. Bombardment of the city

6. Raqqa controlled by the SDF

7. Citizen’s return

8. November 2018

child care space

FLOOR PLAN σκληρό- σκυρόδεμα δάπεδο - σκυρόδεμα σκληρό δάπεδο Rough concrete floor σκληρό λείο- σκυρόδεμα δάπεδο - σκυρόδεμα σκληρό λείο δάπεδο με χρώμαμε χρώμα Colored concrete floor σκληρό λείο- σκυρόδεμα δάπεδο - σκυρόδεμα σκληρό λείο δάπεδο με χρώμαμε χρώμα Smooth floor σκληρό δάπεδο με θραύσματα - σκυρόδεμα με χρώμα

σκληρό δάπεδο με θραύσματα - σκυρόδεμα με χρώμα Rough floor with fragments μαλακό δάπεδο - καουτσούκ με χρώμα

μαλακό δάπεδο - καουτσούκ με χρώμα Rubber floor

μαλακόπατημένο δάπεδο- πατημένο χώμα μαλακό δάπεδοχώμα Earth καλλιέργειες

καλλιέργειες Crops νερό

νερό

Water

αειθαλή δέντρα - θάμνοι αειθαλή δέντρα - θάμνοι

όλο τους το μήκος τους φύλλωμαφύλλωμα σε όλο το σε μήκος Evergreens bushes πικροδάφνη, μυρτιά, λεβάντα πικροδάφνη, μυρτιά, λεβάντα

Lavender/ oleander/ myrthle αειθαλή δέντρα αειθαλή δέντρα

ύψος φυλλώματος ύψος φυλλώματος <<1.5m 1,50 μ. < 1,50 μ. Evergreens ελιά, λεμονιά, μουριά, χαρουπιά

ελιά, λεμονιά, μουριά, χαρουπιά Olive/ lemon/ mulberry tree

Trees >ύψος 1.8 φυλλώματος ύψος φυλλώματος >m. 1,80 μ. > 1,80 μ. ευκάλυπτος, κυπαρίσσι, Eucalyptus/ cypress / pine πεύκο ευκάλυπτος, κυπαρίσσι, πεύκο

φυλλοβόλο φυλλοβόλο δέντρο δέντρο

μ. ύψος φυλλώματος > 3 3m Deciduous trees> ύψος φυλλώματος > 3 μ. αμυγδαλιά αμυγδαλιά Almond tree

φοίνικες φοίνικεςtrees Palm ύψος > 2> μ. 2m ύψος > 2 μ.

υφιστάμενα Existing treesδέντρα υφιστάμενα δέντρα

GENERAL DRAWINGS

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10 m

CHILDREN-CARE SPACE

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The heart of our proposal is the children-care complex, opening to the city, while serving as an-

section c

other exit from the park.

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τομή Β/ Β 012

10m

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